One of the foods I miss most from the USA is
hominy. Occasionally you will see an overpriced can for sale here, but never dried hominy. For years, I've been hoping to try making it from scratch -- starting with field corn, and nixtamalizing it (cooking/soaking with slaked lime) -- but I couldn't even find field corn for sale.
Then, suddenly field corn turned up in my
favourite continental grocery store. So, I made a trip to the Thai grocery store to pick up some
slaked lime. I consulted a
long-bookmarked post on the Cooking Issues blog. And then today I made nixtamal, and
posole.
Only took 6 years or so...
